Monroe County District Attorney’s Office detectives have charged Russell Crevatas, 23, of Barrett Township, with downloading and sharing child pornography on a peer-to-peer file-sharing network.

Crevatas said he had “a compulsion to view (child porn) videos” and couldn’t help himself, despite knowing it’s wrong, according to detectives. Detectives last month identified a computer sharing child porn on the Internet, began an investigation and traced the computer to Crevatas.

He was placed in Monroe County Correctional Facility in lieu of $50,000 bail and will appear in district court at a future date.